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Difficult airway in an obese patient managed with the ProSeal® laryngeal mask airway™

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2005

T. M. Cook
T. M. Cook
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Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal United Hospital, Combe Park, Bath, UK
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European Journal of Anaesthesiology , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , March 2005 , pp. 241 - 243
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2005 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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